Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2025

And we could step up to that through the same tried and true methods: hire more people, leverage more tools and technology. Average deal sizes went down, sales cycles went up. But no problem, we weren’t constrained by cost, hire more people, buy more tools, outsource demand/lead gen… We just ran the mathematical equations.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Hiring Revelation 133

Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. Marketing team structure by audience segments.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

Employee referrals are the most popular hiring method among entrepreneurs. That's both a fact of life and a trend that carries over to how entrepreneurs prefer to source their workforces in 2024 — meaning entrepreneurs generally favor employee referrals as their preferred hiring method. 9% use hiring events. You're welcome.

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Survey Report Hiring Social Media 105

Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2025

Conduct Regular Audits: Periodically review your marketing strategies, site performance, and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement. Develop Effective Marketing Strategies: Align your marketing tactics with your brand’s goals and target audience. Marketing Strategies: Implement effective marketing tactics.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 17, 2025

Introduction In our article, CPQ Automation: The Key to Faster Sales and Higher Revenue , we explored how CPQ automation streamlines sales cycles, eliminates errors, and enhances profitability. Heres how: Recognizing the Signs: When to Hire a CPQ Consultant? CPQ should accelerate your sales cyclenot slow it down.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Cold Calling Hiring 113

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Old Sales Funnels Are Drying Up. A SalesHacker survey of a variety of sales professionals highlights the depth of the issue. The impact of these changes is highlighted in the marketing segment. B2B Sales Operations Are Changing for Good.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

SMBs need to focus on local marketing tools to promote their offerings and sales to meet their sales goals. Local Marketing Tools are Critical for SMBs in 2025 The Competition Never Tires A study by Valpak says that SMBs shouldn’t decrease their ad efforts because of inflation and higher cost of living. They need help.

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Direct Mail Tools Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 93

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Sales Coaching Software Software Coaching 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Pipeliner

APRIL 6, 2025

In a talk with John Golden, sales expert Geoffrey M. Reid talked about something importantwhy schools should teach real sales skills. Reid wrote a book called The Revenue Catalyst: Mastering the Art of Sales. In this talk, he explains why sales should be taught like other school subjects, such as math or marketing.

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Video Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 94

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you.

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Hiring Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Example 3 – Cold LinkedIn Message: Hi Dave, Can I trouble you to like my YouTube channel. If you have a YouTube account can you subscribe. Here is a link to the channel [link] If you have a page or anything you want me to like or subscribe to, just reply with details and I will return the favour. Much appreciated!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

He brought up a very interesting topic that many GTM leaders / founders face as a challenge when scaling a startup; highlighting the 3 stages of executive hires as you scale and what to look out for qualitatively. You need to hire people who are very much think like you, as a founder. First bullet is definitely creative grinders.

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Hiring Scale Lead Scoring Lead Rank 122

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Recruiting and marketing may be two separate fields—but in today’s digital world, the lines between the two have become increasingly blurred. In fact, 86% of HR professionals agree that recruitment is becoming more like marketing ( source ). The recruiting landscape is now a candidate-driven and highly competitive environment.

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Hiring Social Media Face-to-face Channels 250

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. acquisition and 7 startups The most successful companies understand that product and go-to-market strategy must be deeply interconnected. Leverage cross-functional insights Marketing, product, and sales must work in tandem.

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Hiring Scale Lead Rank Hubspot 103

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

Sales Hacker

JULY 30, 2024

Prior to Brex, Sam served as VP of Sales at Zenefits, growing revenue from $1M to $70M in just two years. Discussed in this Episode: Why investing early in sales ops and rev ops is critical for scaling revenue. The risks of scaling sales teams too quickly based on flawed hiring models.

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Scale Hiring Campaigns Advertising 118

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our strategies define our overall goals, our target markets, how we create value with the customers, how we differentiate our offerings, what we are trying to achieve with our customers and for our organization. Sadly, the playbooks of too many sellers and sales leaders focus first on activity. For example we focus on outreach.

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Strategy Hiring Revenue Channels 127

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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Email Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 231

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2023

Sales teams continue to face more and more pressure to ramp up. Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. In the summer of 2015, I got an urgent call from Barry, a colleague who was working with Dr. Stephen Timme and Finlistics on their sales strategy. She’s been a powerhouse in the sales space.

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Referrals Channels Cold Calling Scale 177

Zoominfo

AUGUST 28, 2020

Going over email metrics in the morning, analyzing what didn’t work mid-day, testing new templates and list cleaning in the afternoon — the life of an email marketer is a busy one. For every dollar you spend on email marketing, you can expect an average return of $42 , it is also the third most popular distribution channel.

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Email Marketing Marketing B2B Campaigns 237

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Through a channel partnership network? Affiliate marketing? Door-to-door sales? Most models for building a sales engine haven’t changed much, yet those traditional channel networks are costlier to develop. Gig Economy, the Newest Sales Channel. Building a Gig Channel.

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Engineering Hiring Networking Channels 227

Pipeliner

MARCH 12, 2025

In a recent expert interview, John Golden talked with Chris Jennings , a sales leadership expert with more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience. They discussed new sales training methods, the importance of authenticity in sales, and the changing role of sales managers.

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Video Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 105

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Author: Todd Handy Before we start, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page regarding the term “direct sales.” Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer.

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Hiring Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 222

Pipeliner

APRIL 10, 2025

Marketing is changing fast. John Golden from Sales Online Magazine and Pipeline CRM talked with Adam Nathan in this expert insight interview. They spoke about how AI (artificial intelligence) is helping small businesses do better marketing without spending a lot of money. You dont need to hire a big team. What Is Blaze?

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Small Business Small Business Video Marketing 52

SalesFuel

JANUARY 15, 2025

Challenge: Helping a company understand the HVAC digital marketing space Devin Burtley, an account executive at KXRM , has been on the job for a little over two years. In that time, he has been able to show how AdMall can assist a local business in understanding the ins and outs of the HVAC digital marketing world.

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Data Marketing Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 59

Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After struggling to hire the right sales team, Russ Macumber made a bold decisionhe returned to founder-led sales. In this episode, he shares the hard lessons learned from scaling a startup, hiring salespeople, and building a high-retention client base. The result? A 40% increase in revenue.

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Hiring Scale Revenue Social Media 62

Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2023

That’s because smart recruiters have learned to apply marketing principles to their talent acquisition process, helping them fill and nurture robust talent pipelines they can hire from at a moment’s notice. Here are the key components your talent team should have in place to make recruitment marketing work for them.

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Hiring Top of Funnel 130

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The past few years have been hard on sales with consumers increasingly worried about recession. Your clients need to focus on marketing promotions to stay ahead of the competition in coming years. One of the easiest ways to spot value is marketing promotions. Marketing information (e.g.,

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Promotion Marketing Retail Margin 59

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

By some accounts, as much as 75% of all B2B sales are made through channel partners. Recruiting and retaining channel partners that create win-win relationships is akin to hiring and keeping top employees. Learn more about collaborating with the right partners.

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Hiring Channels B2B Account 156

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 22, 2019

In their stead, we have new modern sales communications that are data-driven, personalized, relevant, omnichannel, sequenced, and fully optimized for today’s sophisticated buyer. The following are the seven major business pain points solved by sales engagement: Business Pain Point #1: Not Optimizing for the Modern Buyer.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Quota Revenue 240

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2022 and 2024, surveyed business leaders have given declining scores to their sales and profit performance. One way to improve this situation is to use the best B2B market intelligence. In seeking a solution to this gloomy outlook, businesses should consider adjusting their marketing strategy.

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B2B Top of Funnel Marketing Decision Maker 59

SalesFuel

JANUARY 20, 2025

Every business wants to grow, but throwing money at marketing without knowing what works is a gamble. For media sales professionals and ad agency experts, the stakes are even higher: your clients count on you to help them beat the competition. Thats where digital marketing audit services come in.

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Paid Content Cost Per Click Lead Rank Marketing 64

SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Organic social marketing has a place in brand building. Accounts may be backing off from this tool because they fear its too difficult to be noticed. The State of Organic Social Over half of surveyed marketers remain committed to organic social media. That fact drives 42% of marketers to limit spending.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Marketing Consumer 59

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’re at a small company or startup, you probably are impressed by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies use for building sales lead pipeline. Account-Based Marketing – yeah, sounds great,” you’re thinking. ” No problem. Remember: this is just a starting place.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies 216